Queen of the field: Football player gets homecoming honor in her uniform

Queen of the field: Football player gets homecoming honor in her uniform

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Updated: 12:25 PM EDT Oct 9, 2017

Like hundreds of happy teens around the country this time of year, Alicia Woollcott was crowned homecoming queen during a high school football game on Friday.

Then she got back to the business of making tackles.

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Woollcott, the 5-foot-5, 165-pound linebacker wearing No. 35 for the Grand Blanc Bobcats in Michigan, is the only girl on the field. And she's not a player to take lightly.

“She’s very intelligent, she’s an outstanding leader and I was so impressed that the boys voted her onto the leadership committee,”coach Clint Alexander said. “She’s incredibly disciplined and mentally tough."

Woollcott says she "tried pretty much every sport growing up" and still takes part in competitive cheerleading, water polo and powerlifting, which she took all-state honors in last spring.

She started playing football in the eighth grade, trading in her cheerleading uniform for shoulder pads, earning to the respect of her teammates and making sure her gender isn't what opponents are thinking of when they see her on the

“I’m not taking it easy if they think they can take it easy on me,” Woollcott told MLive.com at the start of the season. “But, I haven’t met anyone on the field yet that goes less because I’m a girl.”